Sports Media Roundtable with The Boston Globe’s Chad Finn and Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal. Plus, CNBC media reporter Alex Sherman on the WWE/Endeavor merger

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Episode 291 of the Sports Media Podcast features a roundtable discussion with The Boston Globe sports media writer Chad Finn and Sports Business Journal assistant managing editor/digital Austin Karp. They are followed by Alex Sherman, a media reporter for CNBC. In this podcast, Karp and Finn discuss LSU’s win over Iowa in the NCAA women’s basketball championship– the most-watched women’s college basketball game ever; what the viewership numbers mean in context; the future of women’s basketball as a media play; Jim Nantz signing off from the Final Four; the men’s tournament viewership number; the shortening of MLB games thanks to the rule changes; news-breakers on Sports Twitter; and more. Sherman discusses the WWE merging with UFC to form a new publicly traded company controlled by Endeavor Group; why Endeavor wanted this deal; why WWE wanted it; whether there are legit synergies between the two; the valuation of the deal; the upcoming media rights for ‘Raw’ and ‘SmackDown,’ and UFC; the WWE’s intellectual property; Vince McMahon’s future in the new company; where things stand with the NBA's upcoming media rights negotiations, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This Sunday, the race for Premier League glory continues as Manchester City take on Liverpool at the Etihad.
0:06.3	As good as it gets!
0:07.6	And you can stream every moment live on Sky Sports.
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0:15.7	Absolutely brilliant.
0:17.6	Stream Manchester City versus Liverpool this Sunday from 4 p.m.
0:21.7	Head to NowTV.com 18-plus Sky Sports Content stream via internet.
0:27.5	Full terms apply.
0:32.9	Hey everybody. This is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:41.9	Three guests this week, two segments, two great conversations. First up, a sports media roundtable with Boston Globe's Chat Finn and Austin Carp of the Sports Business Journal.
0:52.0	We get into a lot of stuff. Very heavy on women's basketball, LSU's win over Iowa,
0:57.3	and the incredible viewership number that that sport got.
1:00.4	So we go pretty deep into that, what we think it means,
1:02.6	and the Caitlin Clark effect and everything else.
1:07.2	That was a fun conversation with me.
1:09.4	I'm talking about Jim Nance signing off on the Final Four.
1:11.8	For the last time, men's tournament viewership numbers, the incredible success of MLB and these
1:16.6	shorter games.
1:18.0	They have been absolutely fantastic.
1:20.8	And then we finish up with the value of the verified Twitter check for newsbreakers, such
1:26.7	as Adam Schefter, Adrian Wojernowski, and I think
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